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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Vintage)

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Vintage)

by Kary B. Mullis

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity, he refuses to... (more)

Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies

Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies

by Russ Kick, Russell Kick

This book begins where You Are Being Lied To left off. Once again, an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, insiders, dissidents, and academics peels back consensus reality and shows us what's really happening. Hard, documented evidence on the most powerful institutions and controversial topics in the world. Among the revelations: Antidepressants trash your brain. China has repeatedly... (more)

Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World

Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World

by Jeremy Scahill

Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror"-- yet most people have never heard of it. It was the moment the war turned: On March 31, 2004,... (more)

Blowback: Book 3

Nemesis

The Last Days of the American Republic

by Chalmers A. Johnson

The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson’s bestselling Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic In his prophetic book Blowback , Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism and the garrisoning of the... (more)

Blowback: Book 2

The Sorrows of Empire

Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

by Chalmers A. Johnson

"Impressive . . . a powerful indictment of U.S. military and foreign policy." - Los Angeles Times Book Review , front page In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's "lone superpower," then as a "reluctant sheriff," next as the "indispensable nation," and in the wake of 9/11, as a "New Rome." In this important national bestseller, Chalmers Johnson... (more)

The One Percent Doctrine

by Ron Suskind

Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the U.S. government - from President Bush on down - is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since September 11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won? Little, in fact, has been revealed... (more)

The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11

The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11

by David Ray Griffin

Taking to heart the classic idea that those who benefit from a crime ought to be investigated, here the eminent theologian David Ray Griffin sifts through the evidence about the attacks of 9/11--stories from the mainstream press, reports from abroad, the work of other researchers, and the contradictory words of members of the Bush administration themselves--and finds that, taken together, they cast serious... (more)

Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

by Mao Tse-Tung

Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively, and has brought it to a higher and completely new stage. Mao Tse-tung's thought is Marxism-Leninism of the era in which imperialism is heading for total collapse and socialism is advancing to world-wide victory. It is a powerful ideological... (more)

The Federal Siege At Ruby Ridge: In Our Own Words

The Federal Siege At Ruby Ridge: In Our Own Words

by Randy Weaver

9-11 Descent into Tyranny

by Alex Jones

Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold

Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold

by Sterling Seagrave

In 1945, US intelligence officers in manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation, and with Nazi loot recovered in Europe, to create a worldwide American political action... (more)

Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule

Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule

by Charles Derber

Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from "we the people" to trans-national corporations. The result has been job insecurity for millions of workers, debts as far as the eye can see, and a dangerous quest for global domination. Democracy itself has been undermined and the Constitution weakened. This regime must be overturned! And,... (more)

Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World--Portrait of a Revolutionary

Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World--Portrait of a Revolutionary

by Jose Maria Sison

This political biography/autobiography offers a unique look into the political beliefs and motivations of Professor Sison, renowned revolutionary leader, writer, poet and founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP). This collaboration between Sison and American Book Award winning novelist, Ninotchka Rosca, goes far to illuminate the political climate and history of the United States' role in... (more)